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PHILIP G. IIUBERT, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

TIME-VALVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,542 dated June 4,,1889.

Application filed December 31, 1888- Serial No. 295,046. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP G. HUBERT, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inTime-Valves, of which the following is a specification. I

I have illustrated a valve embodyingmy improvement as co-operating witha tilting water-closet bowl.

I will describe in detail a time-valve embodying my improvement, andthen point out the novel features in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan or top view of atilting water-closet bowl embodying my improvement coacting therewith.Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof, taken on the plane of the line or:0, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view, on an enlarged scale, of a valve embodyingmy improvement, a part being broken away to save space.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A designates a water-closet bowl of the tilting kind, shown as providedwith trunnions a upon its sides, which trunnions are journaled inbearings a, formed upon legs or supports b, extending upward from a baseI), which may be secured to-a floor or other support.

B designates a soil-receptacle formed with the bowl, and O a receptaclefor clear water, also formed with the bowl, and from which thesoil-receptacle is flushed when the bowl is tilted or rocked forwardupon its trunnions. The bowl may be tilted by any suitable means, (notshown,) and the soil-receptacle may discharge into a soil-pipe in theusual manner.

D designates a partition dividing the soilreceptacle from theclear-water receptacle. This partition is loosely hung near its upperend in the sides of the bowl, so that when the latter is tilted thewater may pass freely from the clean-water receptacle to thesoil-receptacle. The bowl is flushed from a pipe, E, extending acrossthe bowl above the partition D and supported in upwardly-extendin gportions (1 of the legs 1). Water is supplied to the pipe E through apipe 6 in communication near its other end with a valve F.

The valve F, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3, consists of a shell fprovided with an ingress-port f and an egress-port f Within thevalve-shell is a valve-disk f The interior of the shell is provided witha seat f for the valve f I have shown the valve as provided upon itsupper side with a guide-spinmy improvement an arm g extending out--wardly and over the edge of the bowl. WVhen the bowl-istilted and theclean-water receptacle is raised to discharge its contents into thesoil-receptacle, the edge of the bowl will come in contact with the armg of the trip and raise it, thus rocking the arm upwardly upon itspivot. The spindle f being directly above the trip, is by this movementelevated, carrying with it the valve f and thus admitting water fromabove the valve to beneath the same, whence it will pass outwardly tothe pipe E to again flush the bowl.

H designates a ball-float of ordinary construction. This float isadjustably secured in a lever 1, near one end of the latter. The lever Iis fulcrumed upon a lug or projection h upon the valve-chest, and isbifurcated, so as to extend about the lug or projection g, the spindlef, and the lug or projection h. The

short arm h of the lever, which is also bifurcated, extends downwardlyand at approximately right angles to the main portion or other arm ofthe lever. The lower end of the short arm h is, however, closed by acrosspiece h The trip G extends between the side portions of the arm hof the lever and normally rests upon the cross-piece b at the lower endofsaid arm. When the bowl has been tilted, as described, and the trip Graised, water, of course, flows out of the clean-water receptacle. Thiscauses the ball-float to drop and the lever I consequently to rock uponits fulcrum. The. raising of the trip G has brought it into such aposition that a toe or projection j, with which it is provided upon itsunder side, will be opposite the opening between the side portion of thearm h of the lever, and the rocking of the lever will bring the toewithin said opening. The toe and the cross-piece 7L2 Will thus bebrought into contact, as shown more clearly in dotted outline in Fig. 3,and the lever Will then act as a lock to maintain the trip in suchposition as to keep the valve open. Vhen by the flow of Water theball-float II is raised to a proper height, the lever will be moved. outof engagement with the trip, the latter will fall, and the valve Willreturn to its seat, thus cutting off the supply of Water.

I have shown a supply-pipe J for supplying water to the valve.

Although I have illustrated and described my improvement as applied to awater-closet bowl, I Wish it understood that I do not limit myself tosuch use, as it may obviously be applied to other uses, and the trip Gmay be operated in any suitable manner.

My improved valve is very positive in its action, contains few parts, isnot liable to get out of order, and is manufactured at small cost.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

In a time-valve, the combination, with a valve-chest, of a valvearranged therein, a trip supported from said valve-chest and adapted tocome in contact with the valve or a part thereof to move the valve fromits seat, a lever also supported from the valve-chest and operating toautomatically lock said trip in a position to hold the valve open, and afloat acting on said lever to release the trip, substantially asspecified.

PHILIP G. 'I'IUBER'I.

\Vitnesses:

FRED'K. HAYNES, ARTHUR H. GAMBLTN.

